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The economy of Brazil is the world´s seventh largest by nominal GDP and eighth largest by purchasing power parity. Brazil has moderately free markets and an inward-oriented economy. 

Its economy is the largest in Latin American nations and the second largest in the western hemisphere. Brazil is one of the fastest-growing major economies in the world with an average annual GDP growth rate of over 5 percent. In Brazilian reals, its GDP was estimated at R$ 3.143 trillion in 2009. The Brazilian economy has been predicted to become one of the five largest economies in the world in the decades to come. 

According to the World Economic Forum, Brazil was the top country in upward evolution of competitiveness in 2009, gaining eight positions among other countries, overcoming Russia for the first line, and partially closing the competitiveness gap with India and China among the BRIC economies. Important steps taken since the 1990S toward fiscal sustainability, as well as measures taken to liberalize and open the economy, have significantly boosted the country´s competitiveness fundamentals, providing a better environment for private-sector development. 

Brazil, together with Mexico, has been at the forefront of the Latin American multinationals phenomenon by which, thanks to superior technology and organization, local companies have successfully turned global. These multinationals have made this transition notably by investing massively abroad, in the region and beyond, and thus realizing an increasing portion of their revenues internationally. 

Source: Wikipedia. 

Population of Brazil: over 190 million
According to the UN, the annual population growth rate for 2000—2005 is 1.24%, with the projected population for the year 2015 at over 201 million
President of the Federative Republic of Brazil: President Dra. Dilma Rousseff
Economy (2010 est.)
GDP (nominal exchange rate): $ 2.1 trillion.
GDP (purchasing power parity): $2.194 trillion.
Annual real growth (2010): 7.5%.